Donald Trump on Tuesday said he got “extremely angry” after someone on television suggested he was only the third-best president of the United States.
The admission came during an absolute word salad of a speech to GOP senators in the White House Rose Garden.
Read Trump’s comments in full here:
“So we did the presidential walk of fame from the great George Washington all the way to, well, I think we have to rate him above me, so, less than great, less than George. Somebody went up the other, they say, ‘You’re the third-best president in the United,’ This was on television, ‘Third best,’ And they said, ‘Who were the first two?’ ‘George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.’ And I got extremely angry at this man. You know? You can’t. It’s going to be, it’s going to be tough to beat, Mr. Senator, it’s going to be, John, it’s going to be very tough to beat Washington and Lincoln but we’re gonna to give it a try, right? Hey, they didn’t put out eight wars, nine coming. Alright? We put out eight wars and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.”
It’s unclear if Trump was being tongue-in-cheek with the “angry” claim.
But critics on social media mocked his fragile ego and also fact-checked his “eight wars” boast, too.